skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing

In this weekend, we have four days off which is Saturday to Tuesday. Some of students will spend 3 days out of 4 days off for the Ski Trip. Actually, I am not going to the Ski trip but a lot of my friends are much exciting to enjoy skiing. I now a kind of regret that I did not sign up the ski trip. This is because I have nothing to do on my 4 days weekend. I am wondering that I might kill myself by being bored.

The best way, I used to do, to kill my time is GO TO YOUTUBE.

Youtube is the savior for all people who are bored for their time. On Youtube, there are innumerable videos or songs in all kinds of language, of course English, Japanese and so on. A huge number of videos are uploaded on Youtube every day that is why it is known as the biggest site in the whole world. We Keio students love it, some students are watching it for about over 5 hours per day. I used to use this site for looking for information about something, but it is time to use it for just killing my free time.

dogs in my hand

Hello, how are you doing today? People sometimes be confused or get in a bind for the cultural differences of their food. There is always a possibility that people have wrong ideas for foreign countries’ food. I have seen a lot of restraint of Sushi which is Japanese traditional food in New York but some of it (It can be said more.) are not even similar of the real thing. As a general way to eat Sushi, Japanese must use Soy Sauce and the mustard of Japanese horseradish. However some American or other nations’ people living in New York don’t taste Soy Sauce or Japanese horseradish so the cooks have to find other kind of dressing materials for seasoning. It might make Sushi exactly different from the real one.
We either have confused about the cultural differences for the served food in Keio cafeteria. Quite many kinds of Spanish food which are not familiar for us are served in cafeteria every day, so we have to try it with big courage. Almost those challenging would be failed. But it’s ok. We are used to do that. And Keio cafeteria’s cooks sometimes try to serve some Japanese food for us. It’s very delightful for us but there are many mistakes or misunderstandings. The first thing I have seen in cafeteria’s menu is “Chicken Gyu-Don.” Of course, “Chicken” IS chicken but “Gyu” means BEEF in Japanese.
How can I get this? When I had eaten to check it, there were NO BEEF. It was just Chicken Don, but it tasted OK.
If you want to understand the other countries’ cultures, you have to be very careful, or you might befoul at it.

This is all what I think while eating hotdogs in train to New York City.

…..Where are the DOGS? What’s so HOT?

See you next time!

V-Party

Hey, good morning Keio.  Yesterday we had no school because of President’s day, on Saturday, Valentine Party was held in school building and a lot of students were t there. It was one of the best parties I ever had in this school. When you enter the building, you get a ticket, which was 5 dollar, then you can eat any foods or drinks as free. There were mini-hot dogs, pizzas, cheese cakes, ice creams, chocolate fondue, apple juice, orange juice or any kinds or sodas. Or you can just have a cup of water if you want. I guess they got not enough profits by that, but their works were wonderful and everyone seems to be satisfied enough. And also, some performances were incredibly interesting, I like the band who had sang the famous Japanese Valentine song. I had felt happy about my Zion’s juniors. I had known they had practiced much everyday but I was surprised by their cool performance. We now are looking for the performances in Shofusai the school festival which will be in Aprill. Please check thme out!!!!

FIRE!!!!

Today’s weather is sunny. It is a kind of the most comfortable day in this week. I hope the winter would have done and the beginning of the spring would be appeared. I like spring rather than winter.
Today is a good day for study. The things have happened last 5 minutes of the first class of the day. When the Kokugo’s teacher, Ms. Kikuchi, tried to end up the topic and hand out the other paper stuffs, the bell had rung much earlier than usual. The tone of the bell had been getting louder and louder, and then sooner after, the sound had changed to the huge beep tones. It was so unpleasant and the teacher got in a bind because her plan for the class had been destroyed by the fire drill. I do not understand why the teachers or all other faculties did not have known the fire drill. It might cause many problems to not only students but also teachers. What if we was taking quizzes in class? How could the teachers prevent the cheatings? How can the students show their innocence for the asking of cheatings? And also we had no rest time between first and second class. I consider about the importance of the fire drills and I am sure that we need some of them but I can not get the reason why the teachers have not informed before. I think that the school and the teacher have responsibilities to set up the well-organized, fair and worthful time of the classes to the students equally.
The system of fire drill in Keio is held in disrepute. The fire drills are often held in the right after the study hour which is around 10 pm. There must be some students who are taking shower, keeping studying or preparing for sleep because they are tired.
The system of fire drill should be improved as soon as possible. They might destroy our some rights.

Digital Songs

Hello how are you doing?

This is an addition for last weeks limits of 500 words.

Recently I watch several web sites. I think Apple’s internet service which is called iTunes Music Store is most convenient and useful for me.

Now I am looking for some good Hip Hop song for Zion’s performances in Shofusai which is the biggest event in the year of KEIO. iTunes Music Sore shows us incredibly huge amount of songs in all a lots of genre. Therefore I chose iTunes Music Store but there are several other songs sites on web.

About five to ten years ago, before the digital song services have been appeared, the only way that we can get music is CD or radio. I used to buy CDs of my favorite artists or borrow some from my friends. Because of appearance of iPod and iTunes Music Store, we do not need to go to CD stores or to line up hundreds of CDs on your desks. Only you need to buy a song is your computer.

Thanks to these systems, everybody in other countries can buy all new Japanese songs easily and much faster than looking for CDs in stores.

If you have not used these services, you should try them when you want some songs. Immediately you will notice the convenience of them.

Who Knows Snow

Hello how are you doing recently?
On last week, we had one Snow Day Off and one Snow Delay, so it was a kind of easy week. I did not know that snow give a lot of hope to our lives like that. I used to love snows and went outside to play with making a snow cave or a snow man when snow fell around my house or school. That is why I used to love snow. However I love snow just because of school delay or Snow Day. Every winter in New York is anything like freezing, but this is the last opportunity to go through them for me. We probably could not see any snow in Tokyo.
So give us one more snow day. Just one more….

Keio Year Book will be handed out to all students in the very last of each school year. In that book, there must be a lot of pictures which shows several events we had, usual school life or dormitory life. Especially, all 12th grade students have one own page each which is called Senior Page. A lot of pictures of friends, teachers, parents or junior fellows put on each one’s Senior Page that are decollated by themselves. The deadline of submission of them WAS today but almost every one had not finished them. This is because there are much many friends than I thought. I must go develop more pictures on this weekend. However on the other hand I am so interested and looking forward to see everyone’s Senior Page.
And I also I am looking forward to our graduations so much.


I will write another blog to add more topics in this week.
So see you there.